Whitelaw Reid: “They would only be multiplying the power of the old and natural leaders of Southern politics by every vote given to a…”

I would rather give up my crop to the negroes than the lives of my wife and children.

Here was the opportunity for a statesman to grasp.

They appeared at times when public men often seemed to be groping in the dark on an unknown road, but it is now evident that the road which has been taken is substantially the road they marked out.

I asked the old man what he wanted to learn to read for.